Porters, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Porters Branch. The Survey maps it on the Washington East quadrangle.

Porters within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Washington East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Porters between 1992 and 2019, burning about 496 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	9
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-003
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-010
21 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-009
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-003
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Anne Heights	1.9 miles	13
Logan	2.4 miles	13
Ravenwood Park	3.0 miles	13
Lundberg	3.8 miles	13
Aonia	3.8 miles	13
Washington	3.9 miles	13
Washington Heights	5.0 miles	13
Little River	5.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342787. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.